Auditions Friday 11th September

An audition starts when you enter the room. The moment that you enter the audition room, the directors, casting team and everyone is making judgments of what your doing. This can also include when you enter the building as even a receptionist or as doorman may be in contact with the directors. If you are rude or unprofessional towards anyone that can effect your audition as a director would only know you from a negative note, instead at your potential in the room.

One of the key things for an audition is to be punctual for everything, its always worth turning up at least an hour early for a scheduled audition. This will show willing and may also be able to be seen early. If you turn up early you then give yourself time to relax and think about the audition and what your going to do in there, if you turn up later and your rushed you don't have time to prepare and settle in. In audition rooms, when waiting, you should always look at the information provided, often scripts will be in the room and it is worth having a read through as they may be referred to in the audition.


We then did a role play of audition interview. This went well for me, I played the part of the person being auditioned. This I felt was mort of a challenge as I had to think on my feet to answer the questions that were being asked. I was being asked questions as if I was being auditioned for the part of Mark Cohen in Rent. I felt that what I replyed with was well structured and I showed a passion in what I was saying, and answered in a range of different ways. If I was to do this again I would have liked to be more prepared with my answered as I wasn't sure on some of the facts about the play.

 

My Mock Audition Interview

 

 

Prior to an audition it is always essential to do some prep work and the main play/musical, directors and creative team. also about the company and their past shows. It is also worth thinking about your past experiences and how they can be linked to the show.

We then wrote some prepared some questions that we could answer in a audition or could imagine ourselves answering them. these are my mock questions:

1. What was your first impressions of the play when you did some research or watched?
2. Does any of your past experiences help you with the role?
3. Which skills do you think that you have would be suit this show and character?
4. Which characters do you feel best suits you?
5. What do you think of the themes of the play?
6. What was the last performance that you went for?
7. What do you think you can bring to this productions?
8. What can you gain from this performance?
9. Who is you favourite actor and why?

Once we had prepared our own questions we did some role plays of an auditions interview, I was answering the questions as if I was auditioning for the part of Mark in Rent. Prior to the lesson I had done a fair bit of research on the musical and I knew a lot about the plot and characters. But I did not think about the themes and messages of the play, so when I was asked the questions about themes I felt a bit stumped. In the few days up to the audition I will look into themes and what think that they mean and how they would effect the characters.